![]() ![]() So I immediately went to the games on YouTube and they sent me a bunch of reference materials and stuff to watch. My son plays games, but I had no idea what it was. When I got called by Craig he said, “Have you played the game? We’d love you to work on it.” I never played the game, I don’t play games. How much did the game serve as a source text for your work? Greg Doherty/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images Terry Notary is known for his work on Planet of the Apes and Avatar. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. In a conversation with Inverse, Notary discusses the secret intelligence of the Infected, working with the Russo Brothers on their new sci-fi movie, and The Last of Us Season 2. The Infected in the horde we saw in Episode 5 act like different limbs of an organic mass instead of a scrambling pack of zombies. Notary’s work just translates this into movement. With the addition of the “ tendrils,” Infected can communicate as a sort of hivemind spanning miles. ![]() Notary’s insistence that the Cordyceps have a form of intelligence isn’t his alone. I tried the science and learned from it and applied it.” These are expanded, like really aware creatures. The experience with psilocybin mushrooms, which has proved medically beneficial in many studies, was also inspirational for Notary. These are expanded, like really aware creatures.” This is making me feel really intelligent. “I felt like ‘Whoa, this isn’t making me feel stupid. “I tried mushrooms before I did this, to see what it felt like,” Notary tells Inverse. So Notary went to the source: psychedelics. For Avatar, he poured himself into the cultural study of tribal cultures to capture how the Na’vi move.īut for HBO’s The Last of Us, research wasn’t as easily found - it’s not like there are many examples of how parasitic mushrooms make people move. For his motion-capture work on the Planet of the Apes franchise, he watched a lot of nature videos of apes in the wild. Terry Notary’s work as a movement coach and choreographer is often based on a lot of research. ![]()
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